Experts in industrial automation agree: getting servo drives out of the cabinet is important. What’s wrong with cabinets? Servo drives are kept in cabinets for protection. Avoiding overheating and damage from dirt extends the life of your servo system and keeps your system from malfunctioning. The controlled environment of a cooled cabinet provides a high… Read more »
More accurately, Rexroth helped venerable tea company Yamamotoyama get out of hot water with their product packaging machinery. Yamamotoyama began as a company in 1690, giving it an even longer pedigree than Rexroth.One of their most important accomplishments was to make green tea available to everyone, not just to the wealthy. They still specialize in… Read more »
Rexroth motion control systems are very popular in packaging applications, but that’s not what we’re talking about today. Today we’re talking about the way Rexroth components are packaged when they’re sent to your facility. The picture above shows how it’s supposed to be done. When a component comes from the Rexroth facility to your facility,… Read more »
We get calls that start off, “I’ve got a problem with a machine. It says ‘Rexroth’ on it.” But it can be faster and easier to get the help you need if you have a little more information. Often the name plate of your component is easy to find and includes all the information you… Read more »
Elon Musk says we should quit worrying about robots taking our jobs and worry instead about robots taking our lives. This isn’t a robot overlords scenario. The fear is that robots are not very secure. This allows them to be used by hackers to do things with their arms or wheels. Yes, the limbs are… Read more »
Robots — not exactly the kind of robots we’re showing in the picture, but industrial automation robots — hold out promise for the future. A well-chosen robot can increase safety and environmental responsibility while keeping costs in check. Robots can work with the level of precision needed to create the tools and products we rely… Read more »
Have you heard about the new origami-inspired robots that can lift 1,000 times their own weight? Maybe Toyota’s newest humanoid robot has caught your eye… or maybe you’re into the biohybrids. The look of the new robot may be the jazzy part that shows up in videos, but let’s not forget that it’s really all… Read more »
We’ve said before that we’ll leave it to your imagination to figure out where third party dealers get the parts they use to repair Rexroth legacy motion control components. Now we don’t have to leave it to your imagination, because we received this image showing legacy components being mined for parts. This is the good… Read more »
Rexroth is a key player in Industry 4.0. One of the most important aspects of Industry 4.0 is the gathering of data from machines. So it’s no surprise that Bosch Rexroth is in the forefront of industrial sensors. They’re rolling out the Cross Domain Development Kit XKD at the SPS IPC trade fair, going on… Read more »
Robots are commonplace in American factories now, but there are still some things about their past, present, and future that you might not know. Use these facts to win bar trivia or water cooler bets. Or just to know more about something that could be as much an agent of change for us in the… Read more »
